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Re: hello world and questions...

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Cyn, I hope you don't still have your corn covered with plastic or at least
have devised a way to pollinate your corn silks...Margaret L


At 12:29 PM 2/19/2000 EST, you wrote:
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>Welcome, Lee and Patricia.  I'm also in my first year, so don't worry about 
>sounding foolish.  The pros around here are used to it and quite helpful.
>I found the archives a helpful place to start, as well as Mel's book.
>My big acheivement so far is wintering over some corn I started too late
last 
>year.  It helps to be in San Diego with a mild winter, of course.  I 
>cold-framed it and it grew slowly all winter.  Now that it's getting warmer, 
>it's starting to bump the top of my five foot tall cold frame (basically a 
>PVC frame with clear plastic around it).  AND -- I have my first ear of corn 
>showing up!  I replanted the areas that didn't sprout, and interwove some 
>more planting near the largest plants, so I'm hoping to keep my corn box 
>going for quite a while and have fresh corn available early and late.  Then 
>just for good measure, I planted a few pickeling cukes to grow under the
corn.
>The only real problem I ran into (up until now, with the cold frame getting 
>too low) was some chloresis (sp?) that cleared up with a nice helping of 
>blood meal (my Mom, a new addition to the list, caught it over her holiday 
>visit.  She can not only diagnose but also spell stuff like that.)
>I'm considering adding a small chinese veggie patch now for stir fries,
and I 
>have early starts on peppers and 'maters thriving along the south wall of
the 
>house up against a white wall in containers.
>Welcome!
>Cyn, USDA 9, Sunset 21.5.
>
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